Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment Workshops/

Organiser: RAIC - Royal Architectural Institute of Canada

Date:

20 September, 2024

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RAIC - Royal Architectural Institute of Canada

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Assessing embodied carbon impacts throughout a building’s life cycle is a necessary step in a shift towards regenerative and lower carbon design. The Canadian built environment is the third-highest source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and there is an urgent and critical need to accelerate the knowledge, skills and competencies of professionals who design Canada’s buildings.

To address this need, the RAIC is partnering with the National Research Council of Canada (NRC) in a one-year rapid-deployment project to train members of the Canadian architectural community through a high quality, hand-on case study-based Whole Building Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) curriculum.

Whole building LCA provides an estimate of the total GHG emissions associated with a building. This includes emissions due to operations and defined as the emissions associated with the extraction, manufacturing, transport, installation, replacement, and the end of service life for products and materials used in a building, which constitute a significant proportion of a building’s whole life carbon emissions.

The RAIC is proud to collaborate with Ha/f Climate Design to organize the in-person workshops, followed by an online option, on LCA sessions for practicing industry professionals. Following a theory-based lecture on LCA, embodied carbon, and related methodologies, participants will engage in a hands-on workshop, learning the basics of how to perform an assessment in small groups. The workshops will be held between September 2024 and May 2025 in various locations across Canada including Ottawa, Toronto, St. Andrews, Winnipeg, Regina, Vancouver, Calgary, Halifax and Montreal.

This workshop, hosted by the RAIC and available to the larger community, is designed for architectural professionals (licensed architects, interns, technologists, students, etc.) who want to learn about Life Cycle Assessment and how to reduce embodied carbon in real-life projects.

Participants will leave the session with knowledge of definitions, methods, targets and standards as well as having the opportunity to practice with LCA software to implement into practice. Learn more and register today.

The workshops have been approved by AIBC for 6 CORE LUs.

All participants will receive a certificate of completion at the conclusion of the workshop listing 6 hours of structured learning. If you are not an AIBC member, you can use this certificate to self-report your hours to your association.

*Funding to support for this workshop pricing is provided by the RAIC and NRC

Workshop Outline (schedule in local time)

8:00 – 8:45	Arrival and Registration
8:45 – 9:00	Introduction & Welcome (RAIC/NRC)
9:00 – 9:45	Primer: Less is Less
9:45 – 10:15	Life Cycle Assessment 101
10:15 – 10:30	Break
10:30 – 11:30	Exercise 1 – How to Read an EPD
11:30 – 12:00	Local Case Study
12:00 – 1:00	Lunch
1:00 – 1:30	Introduction to LCA Tools & Methods I
1:30 – 2:30	Exercise 2 – Structural Bay
2:30 – 2:45	Break
2:45 – 3:15	Introduction to LCA Tools & Methods II
3:15 – 4:30	Exercise 3 – Facade Assembly
4:30 – 5:00	Summary and Key Take-Aways

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